08-22-2024, 10:25 AM
(08-22-2024, 07:04 AM)Navaali Wrote: Thank you Darktist for your feedback and suggestions, it’s all really relevant.
I have noticed the same thing as you with how stiff my copy of Hagio is: a tendency to put faces and bodies back to the vertical when they are slanted.
Calligraphy could certainly benefit me. Maybe I can afford an initiation sometime this year.
The first drawabox exercice is indeed done with a ruler. It’s meant to get used to vanishing points and perspective. The second one is really tricky because every point of the boxes must be done by hand. And I’m already, as you’ve noticed, making a lot of mistakes while trying to draw a simple rectangle…
I’m not allowed to use the tool you mention while drawing, but I will now correct those lines as well afterwards in red to force my brain to put more attention to it. And I’ll cheat a little, checking the angle before I make any line, so that I get some remanent picture of a straight line…
Maybe this will help!
Calligraphy iis a super exercise when it comes to hand motor control but why would you need an initiation for it? What is there to be initiated? You just take the pencil in you hand and try to write without any tension in your hands. It should be a pleasent process - physically. There shouldn't be any discomfort or pain in the fingers.
I was always amazed by artists saying they are cheating when they're actually creating a support for themselves. Drawing from life is not easy. And doing so from imagination is a very hard task. Don't be so hard on youself, man.
It's just drawing.